If you perused these pages in 2008, you know all too well how we’ve been blathering about our favorite liquor — and the places we’ve gone, to say nothing of the lengths we’ve gone, to drink it. Here are a few more dispatches we never got around to filing last year (hey, they don’t call [...]
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Recently the Beachbum was in New York giving a presentation to Gotham bar owners and tenders, in which he stumped for the return of Tiki drinks to Manhattan (Robert Simonson recounts the event here, in his blog Off The Presses). Turns out we were preaching to the choir: Exotic cocktails are alive and well in [...]
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Stanislav Vadrna is a busy man, but the Beachbum won’t hold that against him. Not when all the work Stan does is geared toward making the world a better place to drink cocktails. When he isn’t studying Eastern bartending philosophy in Tokyo, teaching mixology in Berlin and Belfast, or consulting for bar owners in New [...]
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The new Museum Of The American Cocktail has it all. Well, all except decent security. How else to explain that the Beachbum was able to attend the opening ceremonies without being 86’d? Here’s his report: When you visit (and you must visit) allow several hours to study the wonders within the beautifully lit glass cases, [...]
The movies have one thing over the theater: No matter how sublime a live performance, when it’s over it’s over, with no record of the event save in the memories of the audience … and that record fades faster than the dyes in even the cheapest film stock. The text of the play, if published [...]
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